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Why I Sat Alone on a Lawn Chair on No Kings Day outside an ICE Facility in my hometown
Wild Apples, poems about downsizing, moving 3,000 miles from Oregon to Vermont, living alone in the Vermont woods during Covid, and welcoming two grandsons is available now from Fernwood Press. Also available on Amazon.com and at your favorite bookstore.
Recent publications:
– “This Winter There is no Girl Left in Me” is on the January 2026 issue of Verse Virtual.
– The rescue dog Ruthie speaks out about her life in a confusing world in Dissident Voice.
–Knoll has been writing prose poems lately. Pleased to have “Snow Blind” appear in the winter issue of the The Orchards Poetry Journal on page 143.
A tribute to my dog Ruthie: Contemporary Haibun Online, “Rescued.” November, 2025
– Letter to the Librarian, Fourth River, November 2025
– “Invocation” and “Rita’s Boots” on Verse Virtual, November 2025
The Unknown Daughter is available at your local bookstore, Amazon and at the publisher’s website, Finishing Line Press. The book was recently a finalist in the New England Poetry Club’s chapbook contest. Review of The Unknown Daughter by Joan Leotta on August 2024 Verse Virtual.
For love of trees….
- Review of One Bent Twig on Rain Taxi by George Longenecker, December 2023.
- Take a look at blurbs about poems in One Bent Twig. Check out the listing on Amazon or on Goodreads. A free version for Kindle is available too!
Recent essays
- “My Brief Take on Eco-Poetry” on Verse Virtual, March 2024
- Poetic License essay in March, 2023 Verse Virtual: “Scanning the Poetry on My Shelves” a Women’s History Month tribute to women poets
A list of Knoll’s online poems.
Bio: Tricia Knoll has been writing poetry since the age of 12. She began submitting poetry for publication after retiring. Ten poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize , one Best of Net, and one Best of Microfiction by -ette.
Her first published poem was in 1970 in a tabloid called View from the Bottom. Then for 40 years, she wrote promotional or education materials to earn a living. More than 300 of her haiku and poems have appeared in online or print journals and poetry anthologies. Visit the “books” tab for introductions to her collected works.
Described in bytes: Mother, grandmother, wife, feminist, dancer, weight lifter, Master Gardener. She writes eco-poetry, lyric and narrative poetry and haiku. In 2015 Tricia wrote her thoughts on feminism for The Persimmon Tree Journal and in 2016 a contribution to Trish Hopkinson’s blog on why she regrets waiting until after retirement to begin writing seriously.
Eco-poetry? Poetry that highlights connectedness in nature, responsibility to care for the world we’ve been given, help to remember what we have lost – and encourages holding up hope for doing no more harm. Knoll’s poem “Gray Whale” is included in the 2018 anthology Fire and Rain – Eco-Poetry of California out from Scarlet Tanager Press.
- Knoll is a contributing editor to Verse Virtual.
- Listen to Tricia’s podcast interview concerning her experience as a poet with spasmodic dysphonia. It includes a reading from her chapbook Urban Wild. Wordgathering – Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature also features recordings of Knoll reading two of her poems related to this voice disability.
- Knoll’s listing on Poets and Writers.